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Locksmith ads in Belfast: £3.35 a click

A Google Ads click for a locksmith in Belfast costs £3.35 at the search-weighted average (935 searches a month, Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled October 2026). Searches over the last 12 months are down 10.9% on the 12 months before. Prices are in GBP, converted from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

The 10-second read
Click price, weighted avg
£3.35
Searches a month
935
Year on year
down 10.9%
Click cost per booked job
£99

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £99 in clicks at £3.35 a click.

In Belfast, the lowest click price on this page is general searches at £2.33. The highest click price on this page in Belfast is urgent at £4.47.

Cost per booked job

What a booked job costs in clicks

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £99 in clicks at £3.35 a click.

Cost per booked job in Belfast is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Belfast figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Intent groupClick pricePer booked job
General searches£2.33£69
Near me£4.13£122
Urgent£4.47£132

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

By intent

Where the locksmith searches are in Belfast

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Near me are the largest share of counted search volume in Belfast, at 50.5%.

In Belfast, urgent has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at £4.47 a click.

An urgent search (“emergency locksmith”) costs £4.76 a click, against £2.33 for “locksmith”.

General searches

Lowest click price on this page
“locksmith”
Searches a month398, 42.6% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£2.33
In Belfast, 1st of 3 niches on this page by click price, the lowest.

Near me

“locksmith near me”
Searches a month472, 50.5% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.13

Urgent

Highest click price on this page
“emergency locksmith”, “24 hour locksmith”, “locked out of house”, “locked out of car”
Searches a month48, 5.1% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avg£4.47
In Belfast, 3rd of 3 niches on this page by click price, the highest.

Specific jobs

“lock change”, “rekey locks”, “lock repair”, “safe opening”, “commercial locksmith”
Searches a month17, 1.8% of counted searches
Click price, weighted avgno Google price

Related keywords

Not counted
“key cutting”
Searches a month111
Click price, weighted avg£0.37
Related keywords sit next to this service but are not counted in the searches or the search-weighted average click price above.
Plan

Plan a month of locksmith ads in Belfast

Put in your own value per job and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

What the budget buys (worked example)

Clicks a month
298.5
Calls or forms
24.0
Booked jobs
10.1
Click cost per booked job
£99

£1,000 at £3.35 a click buys about 298.5 clicks a month.

If 8.05% of clicks call or fill a form and you book 42% of those calls, that is about 24.0 calls and 10.1 booked jobs, so each booked job costs about £99 in clicks.

Put in your value per job and your margin to see whether this pays back.

Keywords

Every locksmith keyword tracked in Belfast

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched locksmith keywords in Belfast are “locksmith near me” (472 searches a month at £4.13 a click), “locksmith” (398 searches a month at £2.33 a click), and “emergency locksmith” (26 searches a month at £4.76 a click).

In Belfast, “locksmith” is the keyword furthest from the country median: £2.33 a click, 85.2% below the £15.76 median click price for locksmith across this country's tracked cities.

In Belfast, “rekey locks” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 1 search a month.

In Belfast, 4 of the 11 counted locksmith keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

KeywordIntentSearchesClick
locksmithGeneral searches398£2.33
locksmith near meNear me472£4.13
emergency locksmithUrgent26£4.76
24 hour locksmithUrgent9£3.63
locked out of houseUrgent7no price
locked out of carUrgent6no price
lock changeSpecific jobs9no price
lock repairSpecific jobs3no price
commercial locksmithSpecific jobs2no price
safe openingSpecific jobs2no price
rekey locksSpecific jobs1no price
key cutting
Related, not counted
Related keywords111£0.37
Ranks and trend

How Belfast compares in the United Kingdom

Over the 48 months tracked, locksmiths searches in Belfast peaked in September 2022 at 1,870 and were lowest in July 2026 at 410. Belfast's single latest tracked month is up 16.2% on the same month a year ago and down 10.9% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Belfast, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "safe opening", up 100.0%.

  • Belfast is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.
  • Belfast is 8th of 25 United Kingdom cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
  • Belfast is the only city in Northern Ireland in this set, so there is no same-region rank.
  • For this service, Belfast sits in Northern Ireland, which is 17th of 19 regions by businesses per 10,000 people, among the three highest (an average of 0.3 businesses per 10,000 people across Northern Ireland).
  • Belfast's 265.7 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 188.2 for this service.
  • Belfast's median locksmith click price of £3.35 is 78.7% below the country median of £15.76.
  • Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 10.9% on the 12 months before.
  • In Belfast, searches peak in May, about 17.3% above the monthly average, and are lowest in July.
Businesses

Locksmith businesses in Belfast

The Office for National Statistics counts 10 businesses in this industry in Belfast (2026), about 0.3 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: local units, VAT or PAYE registered, rounded to 5.

Population: 351,927 (Belfast). Source: ONS mid-year population estimates via Nomis, dataset NM_2002_1, 2025.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

6 countries

Locksmith click prices in 6 countries

United Kingdom is 6th of 6 countries by median locksmith click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

CountryMedian click (US$)Searches per 100,000 peopleCities
IrelandUS$2.88311.05
New ZealandUS$3.38199.66
AustraliaUS$6.61320.125
CanadaUS$7.74154.513
United StatesUS$17.43165.250
United Kingdom
this page's country
US$21.13188.225

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

FAQ

Questions people ask about locksmith ads in Belfast

How much does a Google Ads click cost for a locksmith in Belfast?

£3.35 a click at the search-weighted average across the counted locksmith search terms in Belfast (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026). Belfast is 1st of 25 United Kingdom cities by click price, the lowest.

How many people search for a locksmith in Belfast each month?

935 searches a month on average over the last 12 months, down 10.9% on the 12 months before (Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026).

What does a booked job cost in clicks for locksmiths in Belfast?

At a lead rate of 8.05% of clicks (calls and forms; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Home & Home Improvement) and a booking rate of 42.00% of calls (US/Canada benchmark, ServiceTitan, call-booking rate for trades), a booked job costs about £99 in clicks at £3.35 a click.

Where do the numbers on this page come from?

Searches and click prices: Google Ads via DataForSEO, pulled 13 October 2026. Lead rate: LocaliQ 2026 (US benchmark). Booking rate: ServiceTitan (US/Canada benchmark). Population and business counts: ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis, dataset NM_141_1 (SIC 2007 local units x local authority district). Click prices convert from US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 2026-09 average. Every source is listed at the bottom of this page.

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Method

Search terms: a fixed keyword set per service for United Kingdom, tagged by intent (general, near me, urgent and specific jobs), targeted to Belfast with Google Ads location codes, not a text match.

Monthly searches is the average of the last 12 months, summed across the counted keywords. Related keywords are listed but never counted.

Click price is the search-weighted average click price across the counted keywords (sum of each keyword's click price times its monthly searches, divided by total searches), as Google Ads reports the per-keyword prices via DataForSEO.

Year on year compares the last 12 months of counted searches with the 12 months before.

Cost per booked job is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The lead rate is LocaliQ's US share of clicks that become calls or forms for the closest industry (US benchmark); the booking rate is ServiceTitan's share of calls that book, for trades (US/Canada benchmark). Where either rate has no source, the page prints no number.

DataForSEO reports click prices in US$; they convert to GBP at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average (1 GBP = 1.3406 US$).

The tags “Lowest click price on this page” and “Highest click price on this page” rank the intent groups on this page by click price. They are rankings, not verdicts.

Sources

Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.

DatasetLicence
DataForSEO, retrieved 13 October 2026
DataForSEO Terms of Service (paid API)
US benchmark lead rate (calls and forms), Home & Home Improvement
Published benchmark, cited
US/Canada benchmark booking rate, trades
Published benchmark, cited
Business counts, 2026
Open Government Licence v3.0
Population
September 2026 monthly average
US government work

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